vicarious

Example Sentences

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From some angles, this vicarious pleasure might confirm our worst suspicions that for women, middle age signals the decline after the peak.

From New York Times

Play can take active or passive form and can be vicarious or engaging — and so we recognize play in both the spectator and the actor.”

From Washington Post

She also earns income by livestreaming workshops on vicarious trauma and leading with intention and inclusivity.

From New York Times

“It affords a scintillating, mind-boggling, vicarious thrill for any reader who has ever fantasized dishing out retribution for one wrong or another,” New York Times reviewer Rosalyn Drexler wrote.

From Washington Post

Essential to that experience is getting swept up in the vicarious thrill of an unfamiliar team and its mundane drama.

From New York Times